Perry v. City of Denver
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Pursuant to the provisions of “an act to provide for contiguous towns and cities to become annexed ” (Session Laws, 1893, 451; Laws, 1895, 344; 3 Mills’ Ann.
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Error to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Pursuant to the provisions of “an act to provide for contiguous towns and cities to become annexed ” (Session Laws, 1893, 451; Laws, 1895, 344; 3 Mills’ Ann. Stats., section 4389A et seq.') the individual plaintiffs in error, electors and taxpayers of the town of Fletcher, presented a petition to the county court praying that this municipality be dissolved, the territory embraced therein annexed to the city of Denver, and that the court direct an order to be entered requiring the proper authorities to submit the question of such dissolution and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gabbert
The general saving character of the act of 1891, supra, is limited in its application to those acts which relate to a penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, incurred under such acts. The statutes under which the petition was filed and the preliminary order obtained do not relate to subjects of this character, and, for that reason, are not affected by the act in question.
In passing upon what is termed “retrospective law,” various definitions have been given, dependent largely upon the particular facts presented in each case, but one generally accepted, which appears to…
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